"The Grande-Synthe
refugee camp near Dunkirk was a place of contradictions. It had
been created by the municipality and Médecins Sans Frontières
to respond to a disastrous material situation on the site where
an Exile camp was once and for several years. A disastrous situation
due to the very rapid increase in the number of Exiles, from
less than one hundred people in the Spring of 2015 to nearly
three thousand in November of the same year."

"Czech courts are
so overburdened with the cases relating to refugees that some
judges have proposed the establishment of special tribunals to
only deal with the asylum agenda, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD)
wrote on Saturday.

There is the threat
that if the measures are not taken, the verdicts on refugees,
which have a priority under law, may paralyse courts if there
is a large migrant wave, MfD writes.

In 2015, when the migrant
wave came to a head, regional courts had to deal with some 586
new cases associated with "international protection,"
it adds.

"News
That Moves
issued new Rumors on what can be done if your application gets
rejected. As confirmed by IOM, people hosted on Lesvos, Chios,
Samos, Leros and Kos, who have entered Greece after March 20th,
2016 and whose asylum request has been rejected, have five days
to either appeal against the rejection decision or ask for assistance
from IOM for voluntary return to their home country if eligible,
writes NTM. Find more information here."

ITALY

"This morning,
ship Chimera arrived in Porto Empedocle with 447 migrants (352
men, 83 women and 13 minors). The people rescued from three boats
totaled 451 (145, 157 and 149 migrants respectively). Four migrants
were taken to Lampedusa. In the last two days, a total amount
of 4,500 people have been rescued, including children."

"Despite arrivals
dramatically dropping since the EU-Turkey deal was signed in
2016, the situation on the Greek islands remain difficult, with
thousands of migrants and refugees stuck in substandards camps
for many months, unable to leave for the Greek mainland.

Greek government data
show that currently around 13,000 people are still hosted on
the islands, with more than half in official sites and the remaining
in other hosting facilities (UNHCR and other state run facilities)."

Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF), a medical charity which has carried
out hundreds of rescue operations in the Mediterranean since
the beginning of the migrant crisis, has criticised Frontex,
the European Border and Coast Guard agency, who operate official
EU patrols on migration routes.

MSF said in a series
of tweets that NGOs were being forced to fill gaps in service
provision left by the EU coastguard.

Frontex Director
says its a paradox that a third of rescues are done by
NGOs. We agree. Where are Frontex boats in a day like this?
MSF tweeted.

Many more people
could have died in a day like this if we arrived a few hours
later. We are where were needed, whats the EU doing
meanwhile?"#

"Passeurs
dhospitalités reports that five young refugees will appear in court
on Thursday in Calais, to decide whether their detention is legal
and whether to extend their detention. The refugees claim to
be minors but were declared as adults, with the police
report saying all five were born on 1.1.1999, allowing them to
be put in a detention centre and later deported from the country.
On Friday, a camp close to Calais was destroyed, including the
tents and personal belongings of around 20 people. There was
no legal decision for the eviction and the destruction of personal
belongings is illegal anyways. Three NGOs, Cabane juridique,
le Réveil Voyageur and Utopia 56 have published a press
release protesting against police violence in Calais, the lack
of access to shelter, especially for minors, and the acceleration
of placements into detention centres."

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